Brooke Tucker, 18, and Timothy Jacobs, 44, were taken into custody by the North County Prostitution and Human Trafficking Task Force

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Two people, including an 18-year-old woman, were arrested in San Diego’s North County Wednesday for prostitution, officials from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.

At around 8:45p.m., officials with the North County Prostitution and Human Trafficking Task Force attempted to contact Timothy Jacobs, 44, suspected of acting as a pimp to Brooke Tucker, 18, a young woman from Iowa.

Jacobs and Tucker were inside a vehicle. When officers tried to make contact with the pair, Jacobs refused to stop and allegedly rammed an officer’s car while trying to flee the scene, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said.

Jacobs sped off, with deputies in pursuit. Eventually, he was stopped and taken into custody on suspicion of supervising an individual for the purposes of prostitution, officials said. Jacobs was also charged with felony evading of a peace officer and assault with a deadly weapon for using his vehicle to ram into a patrol car.

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Meantime, Tucker was also arrested and charged with solicitation of prostitution.

Officials said no one was injured during the vehicle pursuit. Victim services were provided to Tucker via the North County Lifeline.

According to DA Bonnie M. Dumanis, under the state’s sex trafficking statutes, a total of 40 human trafficking cases were prosecuted in San Diego in 2012 – a big jump from nine cases prosecuted by the DA’s office in 2009.